by CORAL Magazine | Oct 28, 2021 | Marine
Aquarium collection of Pillar Coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) fragments from Florida reefs rescued and rehabilitated at NOAA NOS NCCOS in Charleston, South Carolina. Photo credit: NOAA/Paul Chelmis. NOAA researchers find success in exploratory treatments for Stony Coral...
by CORAL Magazine | Oct 21, 2021 | Marine
Polyculture cluster of mixed-species coral cuttings (Acropora hyacinthus, Porites rus, and Pocillopora verrucosa) at the beginning of an experiment conducted by American researchers in Mo’orea, French Polynesia. Photo credit: Cody Clements, Georgia...
by CORAL Magazine | Oct 18, 2021 | Marine, News & Notes
A captive Homophyllia australis on-site at Monsoon Aquatics, moments before the egg bundle is released. “Coral spawning seems to be like waiting for a bus. Nothing for ages and then two come along at the same time.” – Dr. Jamie Craggs, commenting on...
by CORAL Magazine | Oct 17, 2021 | Marine, News & Notes
Still known to many aquarium hobbyists simply as Scolies or Scolys due to their former placement in the genus Scolymia, the captive-breeding of this highly-prized large polyp stony coral from Australia was once simply a daydream. It’s time to wake up and face a...
by CORAL Magazine | Oct 14, 2021 | Marine
Acropora corals shedding their zooxanthellae during 2016 bleaching even in the Maldives, Indian Ocean. Credit: The Ocean Agency / Ocean Image Bank Earth has lost 14 percent of its coral reef cover in the last decade, according to the largest analysis of coral reef...